Broken Jaw (May 9, 2009)
After a night out on the town with my buddy Dave, we headed across the street to hang with some of my neighbors. We were over for a while, primarly talking with Sheala and Kia while some of the home-boys (Moon, Tim, and 2 others) were playing craps on the sidewalk.
Everybody had been drinking, Dave was a little bit off his rocker. He accidentally tripped one of my neighbors – Moon -and sent him down the steps onto the sidewalk. Well, in my neighborhood you don’t get away with that (not even an accident). So, Moon had a little ‘talk’ with Dave where he gave him a nice smack. Dave went to the ground, but was honestly so drunk he didn’t even know what happened or remember it happening.
Well, I got Dave into the house and went back out to make my peace with the neighbors. After all it is my block. Well, everyone was still a little wound up and I was giving my apologies…”Sorry for my buddy, he’s a drunken fool, I’ll take care of…” BAM!!! I got sucker punched by one of the big dudes that was over hanging with us. Sent me to the ground and upon rising had blood all over the place. I took off into the house and got to the bathroom where I was spitting out blood. Looking in the mirror, the middle of my job was split in half.
As drunk as Dave was I got him to drive me up to MCV. I bolted in, let the lady know I had insurance, and they took me back pretty quick. They gave me some pain meds and after a few hours the oral surgeon wired the two sides of my jaw together with wire around teeth on each side. That held me over for a few days.
I had surgery on Tuesday where they lined me up nicely and put some titanium plates in my jaw to hold everything together. The doctor. (Dr. Greg Ness) did a bang up job with putting my jaw back to one piece.
So…I’m on a liquid diet for the next few weeks – 6 all together. I’ve been losing weight like crazy and have gotten quite creative with meals. Feel free to stop by the gallery and check out some of the pictures of it.